Colonial Discourse And Gender In U.S. Criminal Courts (Routledge Advances In Criminology)

This book illuminates how cultural evidence (evidence regarding ethnicity) is negotiated by attorneys, witnesses, and defendants in criminal trials. Braunm?l argues that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of a cultural defense has tended to obscure its origin in colonialist and patriarchal discourses, and has been biased against minorities as well as all women from its inception.

• • Author: Caroline Braunm?l
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 03, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 296 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1138008842
• • ISBN-13: 9781138008847